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James Clawson
@jmclawson.bsky.social
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Once academic
(Digital humanities).
Now in Chicago.

#DH, #Data, #Dogs,
#RStats, #Running — hashtags’ songs:
Cicadas on blue.

jmclawson.net
github.com/jmclawson
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jmclawson.bsky.social
Choo choo! An update with mapping adds current locations of trains heading to the station. 🚊 (Leaflet is *amazing* and Stamen's Toner maps look so good on device!)
Map focused on Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago. Three red circles show the locations of Red Line trains heading to Belmont station. Map focused on the downtown loop in Chicago. Multiple circles show the locations of Blue, Pink, Brown, Green, and Orange Line trains heading to the station at Clark and Lake.
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
jmclawson.bsky.social
Building a #Shiny app with #RStats to track real-time train arrivals at my local station was satisfying and did the job I wanted.

But getting a small touchscreen to have it all run locally on an unused #RaspberryPi makes it *unspeakably* enjoyable.

I made a useful toy!
Small display beside a speaker. On the display are colored rows of purple, red, and brown, with destinations and estimated times of arrival into Belmont station—listed at the bottom beside a toggle with an arrow pointing down.
October 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
jmclawson.bsky.social
🚨 New publication alert! My latest blog post shares findings from my work on Lawrence Durrell’s style—plus a correction or two 🙈

#DigitalHumanities

jmclawson.net/posts/2025-0...
Scatter plot showing three clusters: travel writing at the far right, commercial fiction at the bottom left, and literary fiction at the top center. A few texts appear as outliers, positioned closer to other clusters.
September 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
jmclawson.bsky.social
From shower idea to #Shiny app in 2 days. 😅 Little late for last week’s #TidyTuesday but I couldn’t stop adjusting! Movable Data Type explores Gutenberg data across backends, comparing structure, running queries, and visualizing distributions. #RStats #SQL jmclawson.shinyapps.io/movable-data...
Screenshot of Shiny app comparing structure and performance of one data set using Parquet files, duckDB, SQLite, and MySQL. The “Structure” page is selected, and additional pages labeled “Query” and “Languages” are also listed
June 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Proof that I sometimes emerge from the shadows of social media: a blog post about using Python and R to analyze Bluesky posts... about Python and R. Truly, the ouroboros of sentiment analysis. 🐍📊 #Python #RStats jmclawson.net/posts/bluesk...
Bar charts comparing NRC sentiment distributions for Bluesky posts discussing Python and RStats. In Python posts, the sentiments fear, trust, and anticipation show the highest scores of about 1.25%. Among RStats posts, the sentiments trust, anticipation, and joy score the highest, at about 2%, 1.7%, and 1.1%.
January 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM